From: JP Massar
Subject: Re: load implementations
Date: 
Message-ID: <3c20c8a5.346012033@netnews.attbi.com>
On 19 Dec 2001 10:25:15 -0500, Myriam Abramson <········@osf1.gmu.edu>
wrote:

>
>Hi!
>
>How do I indicate to the load function to compile the file if
>necessary? Very useful feature ... 
>
>(a) in allegro
 
No direct way that I know of.

(load (excl:compile-file-if-needed "foo.cl"))

will do what you want.